Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains-Chapter 571 - 266. Frantically reaping good deeds, the venomous flood dragon appears

Maiden Hong had casually gifted Embracing Elixir the Canglong Staff, which had unexpectedly strong restraining power against demons. This was a pleasant surprise for Hou Yuxiao. Also, the Demon Blade Black Extinction given by Maiden Hong to the Second Elder was certainly not simple.

To casually hand out two spiritual artifacts and two volumes of first-class martial arts, Maiden Hong, who had lived for over a thousand years, must possess an incredibly astonishing fortune. Unfortunately, she died too abruptly. If only he could inherit her wealth, the Hou Clan might have become wealthy instantly, Hou Yuxiao thought, feeling a pang of regret.

The death of the crab demon attracted little attention, as the battlefield was already strewn with many dead and wounded demons, especially at the main battlefield under Lu Kaiwu, where at least a hundred had fallen.

Seeing the chaotic scene of demons swarming on the right side of the warship, the fear in his eyes was completely overtaken by greed. Resolving to sidestep the clutter of thoughts in his mind, Hou Yuxiao was stealthily approaching a shrimp demon ranked Eighth Grade.

This shrimp demon, about a hundred meters long, was fighting a Grandmaster of the Third Realm from the Lu Family using its claws just like the crab demon had, but it was clearly much weaker. Under the oppression of the Lu Family’s Grandmaster, it had already started retreating and was about to dive underwater to flee.

"Evil creature, thinking of escaping!"

A fierce shout from Hou Yuxiao suddenly made the demon tremble. Already harboring thoughts of retreat, knowing another high-level expert had arrived besides the Grandmaster in front of it, it hesitated no more, diving straight under the water in a bid to escape.

Unfortunately for the demon, Hou Yuxiao, having laid in ambush for some time, gave no quarter.

Infused with Xuanmo True Essence, the Canglong Staff suddenly fell from the sky, striking the demon’s half-body still above the water. Demon Qi erupted from its body, attempting to resist the strike. However, as the location it was hit darkened into an eerie grey-black, the Demon Qi, as if meeting its natural enemy, instantly began to dissolve bit by bit, and its power rapidly weakened.

Thus, facing no further resistance, the Canglong Staff broke through the demon’s torso without a moment’s delay, spraying demonic blood across the surface and tinting the water a sinister shade of emerald green.

Moral Merit: 9332124

A Seventh Grade demon is worth one million in moral credits, Eighth Grade fifty thousand, but what about Ninth Grade?

"Thank you Master of Hou Family for your brave action!"

With a nod to the Lu Family’s Grandmaster, Hou Yuxiao’s gaze swiftly scoured the other parts of the battlefield and soon fixed upon a fish demon, only several tens of meters in size but still of Ninth Grade, which Hou Cun, Hou Ying, and Hou Fei were currently fighting against. He wasn’t picking randomly, as the demon was already engaging the trio.

Though just barely reaching the Ninth Grade threshold and equivalent in strength to Gangqi Third Realm Bao Dan Period martial artist, the trio were merely in the Gang Qi Second Realm, Gathering Evil Phase, finding it somewhat overbearing to face this fish demon.

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Half-submerged, the fish demon used its large body and dorsal fins as weapons, while its most frightening feature was the giant mouth bristling with sharp teeth, similar to the Black Fish Spirit and Gold-Backed Giant Crocodile they had previously encountered, clearly sharing some bloodline traits.

Armed with longswords and enveloped in Gangsha, the trio trod upon the water’s surface, each displaying their martial arts during the brief moments the fish demon surfaced, scoring numerous wounds. However, these seemed somewhat trivial against the demon’s substantial body.

Hou Yuxiao slightly shook his head; the trio’s cultivation was still too low. The fish demon hadn’t even used its divine skills yet, merely relying on its physical strength to overpower Hou Fei and the others. Since demons of its grade had innate divine skills, once it deployed them, defeat for the trio was certain.

Like when he ambushed the shrimp demon, he approached stealthily, but this time not from above but by diving into the water to approach the Ninth Grade fish demon from below.

As he drew near, he kept his eyes on Hou Fei and the others.

Sure enough, after pushing Hou Ying and Hou Cun aside with its physique, the fish demon puffed out its cheeks at Hou Fei, who was left alone.

With cheeks bulging like two huge orbs and still swelling, it appeared ready to burst at any moment.

"Move away!"

From the depths, Hou Yuxiao sensed the demonic power in the cheeks and swiftly shouted, jolting the bewildered Hou Fei into action.

As Hou Fei pulled back, the fish demon’s mouth suddenly opened wide, firing a sharp black arrow enveloped in Demon Qi directly at Hou Fei’s retreating back.

Clearly, this black arrow was a long-held divine skill of the fish demon.

Although the fish demon could dominate the trio, it lacked the skills to slay any of them outright. By shoving aside Hou Ying and Hou Cun, it used this divine skill to try and eliminate Hou Fei first, then tackle the others. Both, its cunning and the timing, were just right.

Unfortunately, it failed to account for Hou Yuxiao below the water.

Clang...

The black arrow failed to penetrate Hou Fei but collided with a burst of True Yuan from beneath the water, producing a clanging noise of metal on stone. The fish demon’s eyes narrowed as its body swiftly retracted, attempting to dodge the black burst flying in from the water.

But how could its speed match that of Hou Yuxiao? The Canglong Staff transformed into a gleam of black light, piercing directly through the fish demon’s mouth that had yet to close, splattering greenish-black blood from the back of its head. A faint gray-black color swiftly emerged. Within merely three breaths, the fish demon was utterly obliterated, disintegrated into streams of invisible white energy that surged into Hou Yuxiao’s body.